I will say this. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. At certain times, we helped out powers that later became enemies, but only because they were against a common enemy of our own.

You know that nobody who wears a business suit can be anything bad...

As for "ours is not to question why, ours is but to do and die"... Y'all have obviously never been in the military, and know nothing about military law. I'm not talking about getting an order to go slaughter innocent women and children and not questioning it--that would be an unlawful order, and it's not just our right, it's our obligation to disobey such an order. Officers are put in place because they are supposed to know what orders to give and how to give them. But if there is a lawful order, or an order that we don't know for sure is unlawful, the soldiers will not take the heat for it, the leadership will, and the soldiers should carry it out. For example... If we see people with weapons they should have in a building, we might get an order to eliminate the possible threat--they're not going hunting with RPGs, trust me. (Well the are, just not for animals.) So we fire into the building, and lo and behold, there was a civilian in there. In that case, the soldiers did what we had to do, as did the commanding officer, and if anybody's gonna get in trouble for what happened, it'll be the officer. On the other hand, if I see somebody with an RPG pointed out a window at my vehicle, I don't care if there's half a dozen kids standing behind the guy, I'm behind a 40mm automatic grenade launcher and that window is about to get much, much larger. And if I get an order not to fire, and I discover than I am in imminent danger, I will fire anyway until the threat is eliminated--the situation will be investigated and the furthest it would go would be an Article 32 hearing, not even a court-martial.

We are trained to follow orders without hesitation. If something goes wrong because we followed orders, we should not be held accountable for it, it's the responsibility of whoever gave that order.

Oh yeah. If it was such a "vendetta", then Bush Sr. would have gone in and taken Saddam out in the first place. But no, we went in, accomplished the goal, and left.

ShunNakura -- If a Commander was making the right order, and I questioned it, it could cost lives. Looking at both sides of the issue, who's blood would I rather have on my hands--those of my soldiers, my friends, my brothers, because I questioned an order, or those of Iraqis that might or might not be innocent?

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